他们声称：“拉普努伊不是一个悲惨的失败案例，而是一个不太可能成功的故事。”

"Rather than a case of abject failure, Rapu Nui is an unlikely story of success," they claim.

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它会为你包扎心理和身体的创伤，对你受恐惧折磨的意识宣告自由，完全将你从穷困、失败、悲惨、欠缺和挫折中解放出来。

It will bind up mental and physical wounds, proclaim liberty to the fear-ridden mind, and liberate you completely from the limitations of poverty, failure, misery, lack, and frustration.

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如果你这么做了，我绝对有理由相信，你将掌控一种创造奇迹的能力，使你脱离迷惑、悲惨、忧郁和失败的苦海。

As you do, I'm absolutely convinced that you will lay hold of a miracle-working power that will lift you up from confusion, misery, melancholy, and failure.

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I mean it wasn't terrible, it was sort of a precursor to what people are trying to do It flopped miserably, but I'm glad we did it.

其实也没那么糟糕，它就是个先兆，预示了现今人们,很悲惨它失败了，不过我很高兴我们做过。

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